• Beauty is never #nofilter

    How many times have we heard ourselves saying: “Beauty is only skin deep” and “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” and actually believing it? Many times, I suppose,...
  • Commodifying Woman Through Time

    Gender inequality is an issue deeply entrenched in modern society stemming from various factors including poverty, lack of and inadequate access to education, or illiteracy; history bears witness to...
  • Seeing poverty in the mirror

    By most accounts, I would be a statistic in studies linking gender with poverty. After all, female heads of households like me, supporting their children on their own, are...
  • In search of entrepreneurial diversity in Pakistan

    Pakistan is a country with a troubled economy, a dismal state of socio-political affairs, and it is a nation simmering with colossal dissatisfaction. Ranked 146th out of 187 countries...
  • On Accepting Violence Against Women

    Whenever I come across news of a woman being sexually assaulted, or a girl being molested, my mind wanders back into my life as a social science teacher, conducting...
  • Women Engendering Peace

    It is a fact that we live in a world stricken with hunger, conflict and disease. While more than three billion of the world population lives in poverty, earning...
  • On being female, sick and dying

    When we read the news or come across statistics on national or global health concerns, does the word “sex” cross our minds? Does it matter at all, other than...
  • Pakistani Woman: Driving Economy?

    The critical role of technology in the economic development of any country cannot be emphasized enough. Far-reaching in its scope and utility, the application of information and communication technologies...